Social Innovation: Redesigning the Welfare Diamond

Looking for a Mutually Supporting Relationship between Local Social Innovation and Welfare Reform: The Case of Re-use Non-profits in the UK

“…while claiming to strengthen the capabilities of deprived citizens (cf. Moulaert et al 2013;Jenson 2015). The present article explores the relationships between re-use ECO-WISE as a socially innovative practice and public policies, and more specifically the ways in which public policies enable or hamper the development of this initiative.…”

Social services, welfare states and places: an overview

“…the relative contribution of the four main parties involved in the production of social services: the state, the family, the market (for-profit providers), and the community or third sector (non-profit organisations), which constitute the so-called 'providers diamond' (Jenson, 2015). The re-shuffling of responsibilities among these providers also goes under the name of 'horizontal subsidiarity' (Kazepov, 2008;, 'welfare pluralism' (Abrahamson, 1995) or 'new welfare governance ' (Klenk and Pavolini, 2015), and has been labelled 're-mix' in the chapter by Leibetseder et al (in this volume).…”

“…Other authors, however, considered also a fourth provider, alternatively referred to as the third sector, the non-profit sector, the non-governmental sector, the civil society, or the community (Evers, 1995;Bode and Brandsen 2014;Jenson, 2015). This is certainly not a 'new' provider, as philanthropic or charitable organisations and mutual aid associations or cooperatives provided social assistance and services to the poor and/or to specific communities already in the nineteenth century (Martinelli, 2010).…”

“…Nordic countries, but also France and Italy) they were progressively replaced by the state. They are now (re) gaining attention in conjunction with the development of the debate on the social economy (Nyssens, 2006) and social innovation Evers and Ewert, 2015;Jenson, 2015).…”

O Desafio Do Atendimento À Criança Rural No Canadá

“…All welfare regimes organize a particular pattern of relationships among and between individuals and families, the market, the state, and civil society -the four points forming a "welfare diamond" (EVERS et al, 1994). As Jane Jenson (2015) explains the metaphor, each point of the diamond is simultaneously a source of well-being and an instrument for risk-sharing. Markets, for example, allow people to purchase what they need -but they require cash, which is earned through paid labour in the market.…”